Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity42- From Moscow to Baghdad

From Moscow to Baghdad is a collection of studies on the history and culture of Middle Eastern Christian communities and Semitic linguistics. From Moscow to Baghdad is a collection of studies on the history and culture of Middle Eastern Christian communities, Semitic linguistics, and related topics, dedicated to the memory of Prof. Dr. Nikolai Seleznyov (1971–2021), Leading Research Fellow at the Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow and a prominent scholar of Syriac and Christian Arabic literature. In this volume Nikolai’s friends and colleagues present their finest research, including editions and translations of previously unpublished texts. The subjects range from Second-Temple Jewish pseudepigrapha to late antique hagiography, Syriac and Arabic Christianity, Christian-Muslim relations, and Neo-Aramaic dialects.